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Aden Flint's departure

“Like I say, I've just been working hard, enjoying my football, made my way back into the team and hopefully I can keep that. Now it's just down to me to keep my own individual place and also help the team keep up the great performances as well."

So a very innocuous statement from Flint but he was also asked about his future further down the Championship road at the end of season and in response to the question, he simply replied with:

"Look, I'm a Bristol City player. I signed a new contract in January and whatever happens happens.”

Nathan Baker and Aden Flint of Bristol City is challenged by Eliaquim Mangala and Oleksandr Zinchenko of Manchester City

His end of season verdict

Once the 2017/18 season was over, Flint took to Instagram to thank fans for their support over the course of the year.

In a photo of the centre-back appearing to gee up the fans, the caption read “Been a season of ups and downs.. thanks for the support all year.”

However, the defender also gave his thoughts on manager Lee Johnson’s future when the gaffer had been linked with a move to West Brom.

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"Obviously it shows he's doing something right being linked with a Premier League club - for now anyway - it looks like they're going to go down unless they make a great escape," said Flint.

"And he must be doing something right when you get recognised by a team like West Brom - massive club, they've been in the Premier League for what? 10 years?"

"It just goes to show you're progressing in the right way and doing all the right things.

"The gaffer's got his style and his own way of playing and he's implemented that on the team and I think we've done that pretty well to be fair," he also added.

Lee Johnson and Aden Flint of Bristol City are presented with the Sky Bet Championship Manager and Player of the Month Awards for September (Image: Rogan Thomson/JMP)

Legendary praise

With the season looking to be one of City’s best ever, with a place in the promotion places for most of the season and a Carabao Cup run, former Bristol City centre-back and captain Louis Carey gave his opinion on the current Robins side and in particular Aden Flint back in April.

“There’s probably a little more overall individual quality in this team. But it’s still a building process – if it happens this year then you can never say it’s too early,” said Carey.

Former Bristol City player Louis Carey (Image: Rogan Thomson/JMP)

“I think in a couple of years if they can keep the nucleus of this team together then they’ll be a strong side.”

“Flinty is probably someone that I would have enjoyed playing alongside because like Shaun Taylor and Jamie McCombe they were the big dominant players and I liked to read the game more.

“There’s no getting away from it that is his main strength: his size and his power. But he’s been great the last three or four years here.

“Take the goals and size away from him and he’s surprised a lot of people with his performances for the last th